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The position of secretary of state for dominion affairs was a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, responsible for British relations with the Empire’s dominions – Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Newfoundland, and the Irish Free State – and the self-governing Crown colony of Southern Rhodesia.

When initially created in 1925, the office was held in tandem with that of Secretary of State for the Colonies; this arrangement persisted until June 1930. On two subsequent occasions the offices were briefly held by the same person.

The secretary of state was supported by an Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs. In 1947, the name of the office was changed to the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations.

Secretaries of State for Dominion Affairs, 1925–1947Edit

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Portrait Name
Honorifics & constituency
Term of office Political party Prime Minister Foreign Secretary
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | The Right Honourable
Leo Amery
MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook
(also Sec.State for the Colonies)
11 June
1925
4 June
1929
Conservative style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Baldwin Chamberlain
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Sidney Webb 01.jpg The Right Honourable
The Lord Passfield
(also Sec.State for the Colonies)
7 June
1929
5 June
1930
Labour rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | MacDonald Henderson
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:James Henry Thomas circa 1920.jpg The Right Honourable
James Henry Thomas
MP for Derby
(also Sec.State for the Colonies, Aug–Nov 1931)
5 June
1930
22 November
1935
Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | National Labour style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Reading

Simon

rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Malcolmmacdonald.jpg The Right Honourable
Malcolm MacDonald
MP for Ross and Cromarty
22 November
1935
16 May
1938
National Labour style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Baldwin Hoare

Eden

height=15 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Chamberlain
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:No image.svg The Right Honourable
Lord Stanley
MP for Fylde
16 May
1938
16 October
1938†
Conservative rowspan=4 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Halifax
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Malcolmmacdonald.jpg The Right Honourable
Malcolm MacDonald
MP for Ross and Cromarty
(also Sec.State for the Colonies)
31 October
1938
29 January
1939
National Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Thomas Inskip.jpg The Right Honourable
Sir Thomas Inskip
MP for Fareham
29 January
1939
3 September
1939
Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Anthony Eden (retouched).jpg The Right Honourable
Anthony Eden
MP for Warwick and Leamington<ref>Also Secretary of State for War.</ref>
3 September
1939
14 May
1940
Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Thomas Inskip.jpg The Right Honourable
The Viscount Caldecote<ref name="Lords">Also Leader of the House of Lords.</ref>
14 May
1940
3 October
1940
Conservative rowspan=4 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Churchill
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 1947.jpg The Right Honourable
Viscount Cranborne
MP for South Dorset until 1941
Baron Cecil of Essendon after 1941
3 October
1940
19 February
1942
Conservative Eden
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Clement Attlee.jpg The Right Honourable
Clement Attlee
MP for Limehouse<ref>Also Deputy Prime Minister</ref>
19 February
1942
24 September
1943
Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 1947.jpg The Right Honourable
Viscount Cranborne
Baron Cecil of Essendon<ref name="Lords"/>
24 September
1943
26 July
1945
Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Dr. Christopher Addison LOC 16027831872 (cropped).jpg The Right Honourable
The Viscount Addison<ref name="Lords"/>
3 August
1945
7 July
1947
Labour style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Attlee Bevin

The Viscount Addison took up the new post of Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations on 7 July 1947.

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